Quote#Truth
Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer…
Quote byWilliam Penn · 1644–1718
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Part I, 142.
English (original)
Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
— William Penn
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